On Sun, Dec 07, 2003 at 01:34:14PM +0100, Pieter-Paul Spiertz wrote: > Hi, > > On Sun, 7 Dec 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Can anybody tell me how to shutdown from an accidental SunOS boot > > without being root or pulling the plug? > > Pressing Stop-A (L1-A) will get you immediately to the bootprompt again, > without finishing services or umounting gracefully [1]. I usually use > 'sync' there to prevent disk mount trouble next time, but I'm not sure > whether that does the right thing. > > By default, there is no 'Ctrl-Alt-Del' alike key sequence in SunOS. > > > Regards, > Pieter-Paul > > [1] The openboot prom can be protected with a password, which makes > Stop-A ask for it. If you have physical access to the machine, there > are dirty ways to undo an unknown password. > > Hello Pieter,
Stop-A gets me to bootprompt allright, but sync causes kernel-panic and core-dump! Pulling the plug at bootprompt with mount-trouble at next boot with fingers crossed seems to be the lesser evil. I'm running SunOS-5.7 on Ultra5. Found that re-installing SunOS ( after noting down partition table from linux and remembering my initial SunOS setup ) resulted in SunOS forgeting to ask for root password and allowing free root-logins! This is my current solution! I wonder if I can run Warp-5.2 VHDL compiler or some other VHDL tool-set on Linux - then I can get rid of SunOS! Thanks for your reply. Regards, Arvind.
